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This is nice. My old copy broke.
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Worth noting that this album is another release of the New Japan BGM Philharmonic Orchestra performance from 2018, not the old Symphonic Suite from ActRaiser, so if you're looking for that exact arrangement & performance then you won't find it here.
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Started shipping yesterday, I'm adding that as release date.
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I added images for this one: digipak (front, back, inside left, right), tray (both trays use the same image), both discs, booklet (front, back, pages), mini shikishi (signed).
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What was labeled as Digipak Interior Right is actually the Exterior Left. The Interior Right is the Disc 2 Tray, which is the same as the Disc 1 Tray. I've changed the description and uploaded a scan of the entire Digipak Exterior as one image.
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Made some minor track list adjustments as per the booklet. I did the same for the vinyl release as it most likely uses the same titles. They weren't very consistent, though, writing "BloodPool" for disc 1 and "Bloodpool" for disc 2 (um...and "Blood Pool" for disc 1 on their website). And they seem to have problems telling an en dash (1.10, 1.24) apart from a hyphen (1.07, 1.08, 2.03, 2.04).
Wasn't the original symphonic recording the first ever orchestral game music CD? A bit sloppy for such a seminal release. Still, getting the album out is much appreciated! Oh, and safe for the localized titles and the mistranslated "Avarice", they basically used JTurner's and Despatche's translation of the track list on VGMdb! Does this happen a lot? EDIT: Whoops, it was actually this album from where they got the English track list. But the point still stands as that album must've got it from here. :9 Last edited by zierts; Aug 20, 2021 at 05:46 AM. |
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Whoa, thanks for clearing that up! Hm, I'm not sure where I got that from but I recall reading somewhere that it was some kind of first. Maybe the first game orchestra CD where the composer owns the rights to the music?
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No ASCII-equivalent Unicode in English tracklists, i.e., no em/en dashes, brackets, braces, parentheses, apostrophes, ellipses, etc. Only Unicode with no ASCII equivalents like hearts and stars. |
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Not going to go on war on this but it wouldn't be good database design to expect users to replace Unicode characters with ASCII equivalents when they're usually expected to replicate an album's track title contents verbatim, all-caps and typos included.
I respect your feelings on this and you make some valid points but I don't think there's a strong case for eliminating Unicode in English track lists in the long run if the goal is to replicate album data on VGMdb. Ideally, features and applications that cause problems should be programmed to take Unicode characters into account (such as allowing to ignore the distinction between ASCII and Unicode for the search function). Edit: Eh, perhaps not a war but maybe a little sparring. VGMdb's advanced search function has since been amended to ignore the distinctions for apostrophes, hyphens and en dashes, it seems. Quote:
We use the ASCII characters for convenience when composing everyday text messages and program code but professional publishers really shouldn't be using these early-computer-age substitutes in their printed material. And if VGMdb keeps its mission of replicating track lists as the publishers put them, I think it's best to use ASCII characters when the album prints ASCII characters and Unicode characters when the album prints Unicode characters. Use what the album does seems like the simplest possible rule in the long run. I do understand however that there may still be certain functions on VGMdb or elsewhere that cause problems with Unicode characters until the code is amended. Last edited by zierts; Oct 25, 2022 at 02:06 PM. |
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